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Featured Article: Chautauqua

Chautauqua, shuh TAW kwuh, is a system of summer school and correspondence school education founded at Chautauqua Lake, New York, in 1874. See more »

Alternative school

Alternative school is any public or private school that differs from traditional schools in curriculum, purpose, or teaching methods.

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British Academy

British Academy is an institution in the United Kingdom that encourages scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

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Charter school

Charter school is a public school that operates under a special contract giving it freedom from many of the rules that apply to traditional public schools.

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Chautauqua

Chautauqua, shuh TAW kwuh, is a system of summer school and correspondence school education founded at Chautauqua Lake, New York, in 1874.

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Christian Brothers

Christian Brothers is a charitable educational organization founded in Ireland in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice.

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Commonwealth Institute

Commonwealth Institute is an agency, based in London, that promotes learning about the Commonwealth of Nations and its members.

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Community college

Community college is an institution that offers additional training beyond high school.

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Consolidated school

Consolidated school is the result of joining two or more school districts and combining their school populations.

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Day care

Day care is a service in which children or dependent adults are cared for while the person who normally cares for them cannot do so.

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Elementary school

Elementary school is a school for children from age 5 or 6 to age 12 or 14.

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Girls and Boys Town

Girls and Boys Town is a private institution for homeless, abused, neglected, and disabled children of every race and religion.

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High school

High school is a school that provides several years of education for young people beyond the elementary level.

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Junior high school

Junior high school is a school designed mainly for students in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades.

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten is the school grade before first grade.

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Laboratory school

Laboratory school is a school used for the observation and study of children, and for the evaluation of teaching methods.

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Land-grant university

Land-grant university is a school endowed under the Morrill, or Land-Grant, Act of 1862.

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Middle school

Middle school is a school designed for students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.

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Military school

Military school is an institution that educates people and trains them in military arts and sciences.

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Nursery school

Nursery school is a type of early childhood education program designed chiefly for children 3 or 4 years old.

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Outward Bound

Outward Bound is an international educational organization that provides challenging wilderness experiences as courses of study.

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